FIT1009 - e-Commerce systems

Leader(s): Professor Guojun Lu (Gippsland); Ms Komla Pillay (South Africa)

Offered

Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)
South Africa Second semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit introduces fundamental electronic commerce systems and technologies including internet commerce infrastructures, relationships to business strategies, client-side and server-side security, legal and management issues for effective use of internet commerce. It provides students with necessary information and knowledge about the purpose, structure, and use of the internet-based business systems. Specific topics in this unit include:
the internet and business use of the Internet. Internet commerce and Internet mechanisms and infrastructures. Business to consumer and business to business revenue models. Internet commerce standards and security. Electronic payment systems. Internet commerce strategies, intranets and extranets, managing and maintaining an internet commerce presence. Global opportunities and issues and trends in internet commerce. Internet commerce software and multimedia. internet and mobile communcation gateways. Internet commerce standards and security. Internet transaction processing and business models for the Internet. Managing and on-line internet case development,.

Objectives

On completion of this subject the students will be able to:

1. Understand Internet mechanisms and infrastructures and their application;
2. Describe different business to consumer and business to business revenue models;
3. Describe the role of online payment systems and how they are implemented;
4. Explain why standards and security are required for internet commerce;
5. Develop an extensive understanding of how internet commerce concepts, strategies, mechanisms, and infrastructures are brought together to produce internet-based commerce systems;
6. Discuss issues and trends in internet commerce.

Assessment

Exam (3 hours): 60%, Assignments: 40%

Contact hours

4 hrs/week

Co-requisites

FIT1003

Prohibitions

GCO2601, BEW1601, ELC1000, IMS2704, IMS3280, BEG1601, CPE3008, GCO2803

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit1009/